Master Timeline

[Albert Durrell]

I didn't get link either.

[Alfred Hendrickson]

The link is under June 19, not May 19.

[Ric Gillespie]

The link is under June 19, not May 19.

Gaaah!  Sorry.  My bad.  I've now moved it to May 19. 

[Albert Durrell]

Got it.  May 19.

[Bill Mangus]

Yep, it's there.

Have fun with the rest :D

[Diane James]

Works for me.  They fixed something in Burbank on that day. :)
Diane

[Ric Gillespie]

Okay, I think we're in business.  Let's get started. Taking the advice of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, "It's always best to start at the beginning. And all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road." 
Our Yellow Brick Road starts on July 2, 1936.  Dan Brown's post has good suggestions for July 2 and 3, 1936. 

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

Okay, I think we're in business.  Let's get started. Taking the advice of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, "It's always best to start at the beginning. And all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road." 
Our Yellow Brick Road starts on July 2, 1936.  Dan Brown's post has good suggestions for July 2 and 3, 1936.

Note for timeline editors:

If you need to insert a new line in order to capture more than one event on the same date, please use the date function to do so.

So, for example, if there are extra events to add for 2 July 1936, insert a new line in the spreadsheet.

Then put this in the date column:

=DATE(1936,7,2)

The order of parameters is year, month, day.

You may, of course copy the date function from the existing line.

Please do not type something like "Friday, July 3, 1936."

Although it is perfectly readable to a human being, it is not in the best format for the computer to understand it as a date.

[Ric Gillespie]

We're now working out the logistics of how to organize and store photos and documents on the TIGHAR website so that they can be linked to the timeline.  I'm hoping we'll have a complete entry for July 2, 1936 ready for everyone to test later today. 

[Ric Gillespie]

New plan.  As we got into implementing the links in Google Docs spreadsheet we discovered that it was unnecessarily complicated, labor intensive, and clugey for what we want to accomplish.  At Marty's suggestion we went back to the drawing board and came up with a new format that is simple, flexible, and easy to use.  Basically it's a Microsoft Word document in Google docs with embedded photos and links. Take a look at July 2, 1936 and let us know what you think. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EWWg4KlVwc0s07Fv6MLoiWORRe-pAJI1ZPBpQ_raux0/edit?usp=sharing

[Albert Durrell]

Got it fine.  Only suggestion I'd make is to somehow put each days date in the contents so you don't have to scroll down through everything to get to a specific date.  Links all work great.

[Ric Gillespie]

Only suggestion I'd make is to somehow put each days date in the contents so you don't have to scroll down through everything to get to a specific date.

You can hit Command F and search for any date, word or phrase.

[Steve Lyle Gunderson]

Looks good and Links work great. Thanks for including us in the process.

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

Got it fine.  Only suggestion I'd make is to somehow put each days date in the contents so you don't have to scroll down through everything to get to a specific date.  Links all work great.

A Table of Contents with 365 entries in it would be pretty unpleasant, to my taste.

What I suggest is that, as time goes on, when someone sees useful groupings, they might be named and dated in the table of
contents.  Eventually, the meaningful chapter titles would supplant the month headings.

"In the East, 2 July to 11 August 1936" 

"First around the world attempt ..."

"Back to Burbank"

"Second around the world attempt ..."

Which reminds me:  I've already got a "Timeline of the second round-the-world attempt" already roughed out on the wiki.  I guess I could break that up into pieces for the Google doc.

[Ric Gillespie]

What I suggest is that, as time goes on, when someone sees useful groupings, they might be named and dated in the table of
contents.  Eventually, the meaningful chapter titles would supplant the month headings.

"In the East, 2 July to 11 August 1936" 

"First around the world attempt ..."

"Back to Burbank"

"Second around the world attempt ..."

Good idea.